Radio 2 - who's it aimed at?

[peter.evans]

It would be interesting to see their listening figures over the last few years. They must surely have gone down following their changes and target audience.

 

[Newman Noggs]

To my horror, I find myself enjoying Tony Blackburn early on a Saturday morning playing music from the 60s. Sign that it's nearly time to check out.

 

[melrose40yarder]

To my horror, I find myself enjoying Tony Blackburn early on a Saturday morning playing music from the 60s. Sign that it's nearly time to check out.

Me too and i was born in the 60s!

 

[dickie davies]

They've decided to put the radio on in my office at work now and quite quickly burnt through the 5 songs "heart" play and are now onto Radio 2. We get blessed with Vernon Kay chatting shite, followed by Jeremy Vine trying to tackle the serious matters, which today went from Gaza/Israel to falling from ladders and then Walt Disney and now we get Scott Mills. An absolute fucking treat. They have a wider music collection at least, but it's headphones in listening to my own playlist!

If you're using a DAB radio, try finding Happy Radio. It's based in South Manchester and has the old Key 103 presenters on
If you're searching on Alexa, ask it to.play "Happy radio skill"

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

To my horror, I find myself enjoying Tony Blackburn early on a Saturday morning playing music from the 60s. Sign that it's nearly time to check out.

Ooh that's my radio sorted for Saturday mornings. What time does he start Newman ?

 

[Newman Noggs]

Ooh that's my radio sorted for Saturday mornings. What time does he start Newman ?

06.00 hrs. Sounds of the 60s

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

06.00 hrs. Sounds of the 60s

Bloody hell! That's early! No wonder he looks half dead :)

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

Dont mind Sara Cox, ambivalent to the others. Jeremy Vine I could torture in a shipping container for weeks and sleep like a baby.

 

[Deepest Blue]

As a FOC my main station is Boom which has a nice mix of music not chosen by a computer driven by algorithms.
It's on DAB+ and online.

 

[Deepest Blue]

To my horror, I find myself enjoying Tony Blackburn early on a Saturday morning playing music from the 60s. Sign that it's nearly time to check out.

Tony does SOTS at 6-8am on Saturday.

At 8.00 a programme called "My Generation" starts on Boom Radio hosted by ex pirate radio and Piccadilly DJ Roger Day.
It's more like SOTS was in the Brian Matthew days with a wider choice of 60's sounds than Tony's show.
Give it a go if you like that decade.